Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:00:38 +0000 From: Angelo <angelo@rameynet.dynip.com> To: Mike Jennings <jennings@post.kosone.com>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd Message-ID: <3718DA56.6773CE03@rameynet.dynip.com> References: <19990417224408.6AE3C14FAA@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi - I don't know much about all this , but am learning fast! I have FreeBSD 3.1, and in a few days (with the help of this List) I have things working very well - I am on a client, connected to a win98 server . I *willl* have the server under FreeBSD working also, as soon as Iget a better idea of what's going on. 3.1 installed very easy for me, My biggest problem is the whole OS and it's commands are so different (from DOS and MS Windows , I feel I am starting over again. Mike Jennings wrote: > Hello there. > I have been a Linux user for over a year and a half. By using the > documentation project docs I have > been able to get myself out of many sticky problems. Lately, I have > switched from Redhat to Slackware, > to run my home intranet on a pentium 233 machine w/64M ram. Two client > machines, 1 W98 and 1 NT4 wkstn connect over ethernet. All worked until my > HD crashed and lost all 86 mb worth of on-line files! Don't feel to bad for > me though, I got the wife to help me purchase a diamond fireport 40 scsi > controller and a Yamaha 4416s cd-rw for backups. > > Now, Why have I bored you with all this! It seems my ISP has increased my > online time, thus giving me > more time to browse the web, when I have a spare minute. I found FreeBSD > web site. Have since then been > fascinated with the possibility of getting FreeBSD up and running on my > server. > I am now on my 3rd install. During the installation everything is great, > mouse is there, ed0 setup ok, video etc. But then of course you must reboot > the GENERIC kernel. > > Did I tell you I printed out the first 160 pages of the handbook to give me > some guidelines. Tried 3 times to rebuild the kernel, with a little better > success each time, but it still does not fully compile. > > Anyway, before I lay $109.00 CDN for the one and only Complete FreeBSD > Reference book, I would like to > get this OS up and working. Is there any other sources for information on > FreeBSD! > > I would really like to get this OS up and running. I do not easily give up, > but I would like to get my > server up and running again. > > Thanks MJ > > ps I selected the Auto configuration for my 1.6Gb partition and since > trying to rebuild the kernel I seem to have filled the /var directory to > 101%. Any ideas about that. the /var is currently set to 80Mb. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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